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In 2012, *** heir to the*** fortune, was involved in a fatal hit-and-run in Bangkok that resulted in the death of a police officer. After fleeing Thailand in 2017, *** has remained a fugitive. In August 2024, Thai prosecutors indicted former national police chief *** and seven others for allegedly conspiring to alter the recorded speed of **'s Ferrari to help him evade prosecution. The only remaining charge against ***, reckless driving causing death, is valid until 2027. Charged in Absentia I guess you would call it but Ironic that only other cops have been physically indicted, in any case 2 years to go and *** is home free, he'll be wanting to get back for the Formula 1 when it comes to Thailand!

I think DeeMoney has shutdown now, not working on my mobile anymore I sent support an email and they just replied they couldn't give a date when it would be available again, but yes they weren't the cheapest to send money internationally. Not sure carrying a large amount of currency is advisable I think anymore than 10k dollars US or 10k pounds UK and you will be scrutinised like an international money launderer! SWIFT bank transfer like you said BK bank to US is the way forward, slight pain heading into the branch and stuff (which you would have to do to get currency in any case) but worth it if it is a large amount of money and the cheapest option.

Not sure how 'emerging' these are if you go to Phuket or Pattaya these days, fortunately not as many emerging markets exist in the north of Thailand thankfully.

Thought I'd fire another post in before someone picks me up on it! Unless you an heir to a well known drinks company!

Not sure being Thai excludes him from the point I made, still can't go around driving your car into people and killing them wherever you are from.

Have seen so many good friends fall out over small 'loans' its never worth it, even if you can afford to, I have given close friends money before but I pretty much write it off as soon as it is handed over and ensure it is nothing that will impact me should I not get it back.

Not a legal leg to stand on in any country not just Thailand it was a gift, I guess the only comfort will be she will have learned not to do it again.

Yep, sounds like he is more of a resident here than India probably spends more than 180 days in a year here (tax topic related) That will probably be sorted out as you mentioned by money changing hands and I am guessing it will also be a life changing amount of money for the widow however sad the incident is, but also sadly that is often how incidents like this are resolved, the rich people never learn and the poor people go to jail.

This is top detective work from the 300,000 that were expected to attend

Hahahaha yeah and it's a good job he's not letting anyone know he is working on his youtube channel with 200k subscribers. I was scared to harvest a single bunch of rice in my girlfriends field last year just in case the immigration plod were hiding in the bushes!

I used KBank yesterday to pay for an order unless there is a specific issue with SCB not sure.

Do you work for the revenue department or a tax advisor looking for business? 😁 I can buy a house and own it where at? I could buy a house but I would have to build it floating in the air as I couldn't own the land it was built on.

Had to laugh at this one I lived in the Philippines during COVID and they had checkpoints everywhere manned by police with M16's. Was going through a checkpoint one day and got stopped we had to get shopping as we were allowed to do, and I asked the policeman if M16's were a cure for COVID, he didn't take it too well, still managed to get the shopping though.

Shouldn't they have been doing all of this already?

I have made my thoughts clear on this in many other forums. In the UK the majority of the tax money spent goes to welfare the next highest amount goes to the NHS closely followed by others such as pensions, defence etc I would be happy to pay tax here should I become eligible for social security, income support, pensions or free health care. Can't see that happening, I can't even buy a house here! And I haven't been called a 'grown up' for a while 🙂